Soho 73'

Original photos by Robert Stallard, taken in 1973

In the early to mid-1970’s Robert Stallard, Architect lived in Gerrard Place Soho London W1. An architectural student during this period, Robert decided to document Soho for his final dissertation to discuss and analyse his thoughts and ideas on how growth and development could take place in Soho without losing its unique character, – “in 1972 the area had been described by the Chairman of Westminster Planning Committee as a ‘down-at-heel-neon-lit-slum’!”